Next Buzzwords Sunday June 14th
Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
7pm Workshop led by Kate Noakes
Open mic and readings 8pm
Guest poet Kate Noakes
£5 waged, £3 unwaged, pay on the door
Kate Noakes lives in Bristol, and has a PhD in contemporary British and American poetry from the University of Reading. Her new book arising from this work is Sublime Lungs, has just been published by Two Rivers Press. Bog Queens, a pamphlet from Green Bottle Press is going to be published this summer.
She was elected to the Welsh Academy in 2011. Her content rich website, www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com, is archived by the National Library of Wales. Kate’s first non-fiction title is Real Hay-on-Wye 2022 Seren.
Her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies and has read all over the country including at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and the Poetry and Words stage at Glastonbury Festival. She is one third of Bristol poetry performance group, Braid (www.braidpoetry.com).
During six years in Paris, she was founding president of Paris Lit Up. She acted as a trustee for London literature development agency, Spread the Word between 2018 and 2022. Kate has taught creative writing for Paris Lit Up, Oxford University, the Poetry School, the Globe Hay-on-Wye and Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, and she offers one to one poetry coaching.
